A collection of minor improvements (March 2026)

A lot of the work I’ve done in the last few weeks has been behind the scenes on optimisations, admin improvements (to make my life easier), anti-spam / moderation, library upgrades, as well as producing early drafts of new features such as individual newsletter sending (in early beta). Still, there are a few 'quality of life' improvements to the main product that hopefully makes Pagecord a tiny bit better.

Never underestimate the power behind the aggregation of marginal gains!

Tags now accept unicode letters and numbers (e.g. programação, café, über-cool, 日本語)
Added a new social link option for Glass.photo.
Added a new social link option for Foto.
The English long date format has changed from Feb 12, 2026 to 12 Feb 2026 so it's now consistent with the short date format Feb 12.
When using {{ posts | limit: N }} the long date format is now used rather than the short date format which makes a lot more sense.
Fixed a rendering issue with the post timestamp when previewing drafts.
Post likes now visually remain 'liked' after page refreshes on the same device.
Blogs on the pagecord.com domain are now edge-cached by Cloudflare, so your site loads faster for visitors around the world. Considering options for making this the same for custom domains. Non-trivial.
In the app posts list, there's now an email icon to indicate if the post has been sent to your email subscribers, and tags are a bit less prominent and make better use of space.
Reply and contact forms max width is now constrained so they look better on wider layouts.
You can now use drag and drop to move images around the editor, and in and out of galleries.
Increased max custom CSS size to 8KB. Surely this is enough CSS? 😅
Images in a gallery now use lightbox on mobile – click to view and image at a larger size, then swipe to cycle through the images. On desktop you can use arrow keys or on-screen buttons to navigate back and forth.
The tag filter banner has been restyled (a bit) and a new tag RSS link added. If people want to subscribe only to specific tags, now they can!

Posts now include a data-tags attribute on their wrapper elements (across all layouts and individual post pages), allowing custom CSS targeting by tag, e.g. [data-tags~="quote"] { border-left: 3px solid purple; }.